Preserving compound.



, UNITED STATES PATENT -OFFICE.

SAXTON O. SHOUP, OFFOSTORIA, OHIO.

'PRES'E'RVING COM POUND.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 700,446, dated May 20, 1902.-

Application filed February 26,1902.

. compound by means of which fruit and other food may be preserved without or decomposition.

The compound consists of the following ingredients, preferably in the. proportions fermentation stated: Flowers of sulfur, tenpounds; mag- .nesia, two ounces; charcoal, (powdered,) one pound; New Orleans molasses, one pound; pulverized chalk, two ounces; and pulverized alum, four ounces. These ingredients are mixed together and molded'i-n cakes.

The manner of application to the articles to be preserved is as follows: The fruit or other food-stud is inclosed in an air-tight receptacle, into which'is placed a sufficient quantity of the above-mentioned compound in fragments. Several jars of water are also Serial No. 95,657. (No specimens.)

placed in the receptacle, which ispreferably a closet or box made as near air-tight as possible, The compound is then set on fire and have the effect of preventing fermentation or e decomposition of the fruit or other stuff with-.

in the box and preserve the same in its origi-:-

nal freshness for an indefinite time The products of combustion ofthe compound are healthful. Such of the fruit as'maybede- .not'in anymanner deleterious to the food, a v .but,:onthe contrary, are consideredto-"be sired for use may be taken from the box from 7 time to timeswithout neutralizing the effect of the. preservative on the remainder, It is advisable, however, that the jars of waterbe.

kept filled.

Havingthus described the invention, what I claim as new,- and desire to secure by Letter Patent,-is 4 r A preserving compound consisting of sul= fur, magnesia, charcoal-,-molasses, chalk and alum,-, substantially as described.

In testimonywhereof I affixmy signature in presence of two witnesses. i SAXTON O. SHOUP.

Witnesses:

GEORGE P. SOHATZEL,=

. WILLIAM O. BULGER. 

